Renoir's achievement in still life, with a profuse array of vibrant blooms as luxuriant in its subject as the interiors in which he hoped it would hang. This selection of cosmos and peony flowers offered Renoir a richly saturated range of different but closely related hues with which to build a harmonious arrangement of color. It is an image at once subtle and compelling; distinguished by a simple composition; a lucid, carefully balanced palette and a warm luminosity.